Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in ItalyThomas Bayrle: all-in-one

Thomas Bayrle: M-Formation, 1970

Courtesy of Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin

Thomas Bayrle: all-in-oneITALYNAPLES • Museo Madre • Ongoing

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with WIELS-Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, is the largest retrospective ever made, and the first in an Italian public institution, devoted to Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937), one of the pioneers and leading exponents of European Pop Art, whose artistic language combines Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Op Art, so offering a true epitome of the neo-avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century. With more than 200 works, from 1960 to the present, the exhibition offers a powerful portrait of contemporary mass humanity, with its layered and hybrid identity, shaped by a continuous overlapping between consumerism and ecology, propaganda and protest, sex and spirituality, religion and pornography.